Code
PTEAQ
Growth form
Fern
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Terrestrial
PTEAQ
Growth form
Fern
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Pteridium aquilinum subsp. typicum R.M. Tryon |
| synonym | Pteridium aquilinum var. aquilinum |
| synonym | Pteridium aquilinum var. lanuginosum Henriq. |
| synonym | Pteris aquilina f. glabrior Carruth. |
| synonym | Pteris aquilina L. |
| synonym | Pteris capensis Thunb. |
| synonym | Pteris lanuginosa Bory ex Willd. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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Global description
Pteridium aquilinum is a large terrestrial fern, reaching up to 3 m high, with robust stem and triangular frond divided several times. The fronds are born from a branched, long drawing rhizome, making it a perennial , dynamic and invasive fern. Its spread is mainly vegetative.
General habit
Erect terrestrial fern, measuring 1-3 meters high.
Underground system
The underground system is a long branched rhizome, 1 to 1.5 cm thick, black in color, which is developed by dichotomous division and travels several dozen cm deep in the soil.
Leaf
The rhizome produces fronds borne by a thick, sturdy, cylindrical, blackish-brown petiole with a pubescent base. It measures up to 1 m to 1.5 m long. The blade is triangular in shape and up to 45 cm long. It is compound, divided 3 to 4 times, up to the terminal lobes which are triangular and opposite. All the terminal lobes are fertile.
Inflorescence
The sori are linear, located on the margins of the lobes.
Pteridium aquilinum is a large terrestrial fern, reaching up to 3 m high, with robust stem and triangular frond divided several times. The fronds are born from a branched, long drawing rhizome, making it a perennial , dynamic and invasive fern. Its spread is mainly vegetative.
General habit
Erect terrestrial fern, measuring 1-3 meters high.
Underground system
The underground system is a long branched rhizome, 1 to 1.5 cm thick, black in color, which is developed by dichotomous division and travels several dozen cm deep in the soil.
Leaf
The rhizome produces fronds borne by a thick, sturdy, cylindrical, blackish-brown petiole with a pubescent base. It measures up to 1 m to 1.5 m long. The blade is triangular in shape and up to 45 cm long. It is compound, divided 3 to 4 times, up to the terminal lobes which are triangular and opposite. All the terminal lobes are fertile.
Inflorescence
The sori are linear, located on the margins of the lobes.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
Reproduction
The spread of Pteridium aquilinum occurs primarily by vegetative propagation from very long rhizomes down to a few tens of centimeters deep. Reproduction by spores is exceptional.
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Morphology
Growth form
Running plant
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Leaf ratio medium
Compound leaf type
Bipinnate
Stem section
Round
Root type
Rhizome
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Lamina base
rounded
Lamina margin
irregular
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Dense hairy
Upperface hair type
Wooly
Long
Lowerface pilosity
Dense hairy
Lowerface hair type
Long
Wooly
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
one
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Stem hair type
Short and long hairs mixed
Wooly
Pubescent
Life form
Geophytic plant
Fern
Ecology
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Comoros: Pteridium aquilinum is a species present in basaltic and rocky soils and including cassava plantations vigils. Very common species in open low and high altitude environments.
Madagascar: The species grows on soils of variable fertility, sandy alluvial, ferralitic soils and coastal sands in humid areas, in sunny or slightly shaded places. It is a weed of annual and perennial crops, in fallows and secondary forests, along canals and crops, along the edges of wetland roads, on the whole of the eastern slope, in the North and on the Highlands (subhumid) up to over 2000 m altitude. It is found mainly in cassava, rainfed rice or orchards, semi-intensive or extensive growing systems in the East, Middle East, Southeast, Northeast and Highlands.
Mayotte: P. aquilinum is a native fern quite common on grassy padza, on slopes and rubble. It is a pioneer species.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Worldwide distribution
Pteridium aquilinum is a very cosmopolitan plant and one of the most widespread species in the world. It is present in most temperate and tropical countries: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Tropical Africa, Southern Africa, Southwest Indian Ocean Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia Southeast, Indonesia, Australia.
Pteridium aquilinum is a very cosmopolitan plant and one of the most widespread species in the world. It is present in most temperate and tropical countries: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Tropical Africa, Southern Africa, Southwest Indian Ocean Islands, India, China, Southeast Asia Southeast, Indonesia, Australia.
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Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
Mauritius
Seychelles
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Comoros: Pteridium aquilinum is an abundant weed in cassava, banana, vanilla and of the old fallow.
Madagascar: Pteridium aquilinum is a fairly common and generally abundant weed of crops and field margins in the humid eastern slopes and in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. It is a common invasive species of secondary forest edges, fallows and slash-and-burn crops, especially after a few years of cultivation, along cultivated fields and canals on more or less sloping siliceous soils; it is often associated with Heather (Philippia sp) and Helichrysum spp. It was found to be locally very abundant on poor, well-drained, siliceous soils generally reserved for fruit crops or cassava; rainfed rice on slash-and-burn ("tavy" rice) is also very infested by this species following the degradation of the soil after several years of cultivation; fruit crops, especially pineapple on sandy soils of the coastal plains of the East Coast, are also heavily invaded by this weed.
Comoros: Pteridium aquilinum is an abundant weed in cassava, banana, vanilla and of the old fallow.
Madagascar: Pteridium aquilinum is a fairly common and generally abundant weed of crops and field margins in the humid eastern slopes and in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. It is a common invasive species of secondary forest edges, fallows and slash-and-burn crops, especially after a few years of cultivation, along cultivated fields and canals on more or less sloping siliceous soils; it is often associated with Heather (Philippia sp) and Helichrysum spp. It was found to be locally very abundant on poor, well-drained, siliceous soils generally reserved for fruit crops or cassava; rainfed rice on slash-and-burn ("tavy" rice) is also very infested by this species following the degradation of the soil after several years of cultivation; fruit crops, especially pineapple on sandy soils of the coastal plains of the East Coast, are also heavily invaded by this weed.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Construction: In Madagascar, the axes of slender fronds long enough in a less shaded environment can be used as building materials (making ceiling).
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Management
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Local control
Comoros: The control of Pteridium aquilinum is by uprooting rhizomes with picks or by burning during land clearing.
Madagascar: This species is controlled using small hand tools (angady, cutter, sickle).
Comoros: The control of Pteridium aquilinum is by uprooting rhizomes with picks or by burning during land clearing.
Madagascar: This species is controlled using small hand tools (angady, cutter, sickle).
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Coste H., 1990, Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, Paris, France.
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 487 p.
- Montegut J., sans date, Pérennes et vivaces nuisibles en agriculture, ed. INSERENVELOP, Aubervilliers, France.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Institut international d’agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- CABANIS Y., CHABOUIS L. & CHABOUIS F. 1970 – Végétaux et Groupements Végétaux de Madagascar et des Mascareignes. Tome II, p. 500-503.
- TARDIEU-BLOT, 1958. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (Plantes vasculaires) 5è Famille POLYPODIACEES Tome I Famille 54 Pteridaceae, M.N.H.N., Topogr. Firmin-Didot&Cie, Paris 1958, p 65-67.
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/45596
Information Listing > References
- Coste H., 1990, Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, Paris, France.
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 487 p.
- Montegut J., sans date, Pérennes et vivaces nuisibles en agriculture, ed. INSERENVELOP, Aubervilliers, France.
- Okezie Akobundu, I. et Agyakwa, C.W. 1989. Guide des adventices d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Institut international d’agriculture tropicale, Ibadan, Nigeria.
- CABANIS Y., CHABOUIS L. & CHABOUIS F. 1970 – Végétaux et Groupements Végétaux de Madagascar et des Mascareignes. Tome II, p. 500-503.
- TARDIEU-BLOT, 1958. Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (Plantes vasculaires) 5è Famille POLYPODIACEES Tome I Famille 54 Pteridaceae, M.N.H.N., Topogr. Firmin-Didot&Cie, Paris 1958, p 65-67.
- https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/45596
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Polypodiopsida |
| Order | Polypodiales |
| Family | Dennstaedtiaceae |
| Genus | Pteridium |
| Species | Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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